GBIF taxon key
ID gbif_taxon_id
DatatypeNot PIIidentifierDraft
This record is a draft: it has not been reviewed yet and may be incomplete or wrong. Do not rely on it for compliance decisions. Help improve it (see CONTRIBUTING.md).
Numeric key of a taxon in the GBIF Backbone Taxonomy of the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, used in occurrence data downloads. Wikidata keeps the taxon identifiers of the taxonomy that GBIF introduced in 2026, which are short alphanumeric codes, in a separate property (P14607).
- Categories
- Scientific, Environment
- Countries
- Global (not tied to a country)
- Languages
- Common to most languages
- Bioregistry
gbif- Wikidata
- P846
- Quality
- 80/100 · missing: negative example, translation, detector coverage
- Metacrafter rules
- no detection rule yet
- Supported by tools
- no tool record lists this type yet
Regular expression
^[1-9]\d{0,8}$Python re syntax.
Examples
| Value | Description |
|---|---|
| 5963040 | tailed tailless bat |
| 3239598 | Apidium |
| 1948418 | Unkana (Hesperiidae) |
Sources
- wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Biodiversity_Information_Facility
- doc: https://www.gbif.org/species/search
- wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P846
Use this record
- Page URL:
http://registry.apicrafter.io/datatype/gbif_taxon_id - JSON: API v1 · legacy shape (used by metacrafter) · Markdown (for LLMs)
- Improve it: edit
data/datatypes/any/science/gbif_taxon_id.yamlon GitHub